Finance

BlackRock’s Samara Cohen said “a fair amount of plumbing” is needed to unlock the ability for pensions and endowments to gain BTC exposure

A pilot project from Swift, UBS and Chainlink demonstrates how tokenized funds can bridge traditional and crypto rails

Also in the tokenized fund space, Franklin Templeton launches on Base and Securitize hits $1 billion in tokenized RWA onchain

A new spot SOL ETF filing with the SEC comes a few months after VanEck kicked off the process with a filing of its own

T. Rowe Price’s technology ETF invests in companies across the hardware, software, internet and payments segments

Financial institutions are weighing the business case for tokenizing assets and regulatory considerations, Ripple’s James Wallis says

Even if you are bullish on the space, execs agree it will take a while before some of the space’s multi-trillion-dollar projections are met

The approvals come less than a month after the SEC granted Nasdaq permission to list similar options

Industry watchers have said planned products focused on crypto assets outside of BTC and ETH could face regulatory hurdles in the near-term

Institutions to test out the settlement of “digital assets and currencies” on a network that annually carries more than 5 billion financial messages

After Bitwise’s XRP ETF filing this week, one industry watcher notes: “Politics will determine whether this happens soon or in a few years”

Spain-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria has been working in the new Visa Tokenized Asset Platform sandbox

Bitwise took the initial steps for an XRP ETF Wednesday

The investment firm onboards Anchorage Digital Bank and BitGo as partners alongside current custodian Coinbase

The three actively managed funds target equities in the blockchain and AI realms while seeking to manage volatility

Token launches could also see a comeback this fall, PitchBook’s Robert Le said

The offering, which launched in October 2023, had gathered just $21 million in assets

Investors could be open to “reputation risk” if they don’t learn about the crypto asset class, Grayscale’s managing director says

The fund category saw $252 million of net inflows on Friday alone — the day of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s “dovish” speech in Jackson Hole

The prospect of spot solana ETFs has taken a hit, and the agency appears to be taking its time in reviewing planned crypto index funds

Hedge funds made up a chunk of the firms disclosing positions in bitcoin ETFs

There are three certainties in crypto bull markets: memecoin manias, SEC lawsuits, and a wave of new Grayscale trusts

Shifting attitudes in Washington could quicken approval of solana ETFs, says 21Shares US business head Federico Brokate

Grayscale managing director John Hoffman says the firm will continue to “push the envelope on innovation”